A Little Bit of Everything...

EVERY week the Stratford Press editorial department tries to deliver a quality paper filled with interesting local news and faces.
Each week our paper is created from local advertising - depending on how many adverts determines how many pages we have.
When the Press is designed the adverts are placed in their spots, followed by any featured news (Eltham, Inglewood, Rural etc&). What is left is then divided between regular columns (police, bouquet, council etc&) and our main news stories.
The space that is then left is filled with community news supplied by locals. Some community groups pay a small fee to ensure their write-up is printed every week.
It is a hard juggling act, which we try and do our best to fit all of your news in, however most weeks we simply run out of space.
We don't want your contributed news to stop, however if you could keep it brief and to the point (150 words max) it has a higher chance of getting printed.
Or maybe your news could be contributed fortnightly or monthly?
If you are holding an event or something of importance maybe we could cover it as general news and come and take a photograph pictures always make a story better.
If you have any questions please phone me at the office 765 5471.
Cheers Jess
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Looking back&
Stratford Press, July 25, 1979
Welcome sign
Stratford's Round Table service club is to be invited to carry out the erection of 'Welcome to Stratford' signs at both the northern and southern entrances to the borough.
The decision was reached at last week's Borough Council meeting on the recommendation of the Promotion Committee. A number of other service organisations and private individuals had earlier submitted proposed designs for the committee's consideration.
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Did you know?
" A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
" A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off
" A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate
" A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person
" A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
" A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours
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Bumper stickers
These have been spotted on bumper stickers on cars around the globe:
I love animals, they taste great
EARTH FIRST! We'll stripmine the other planets later
"Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes."
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies
The gene pool could use a little chlorine
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot
He who laughs last thinks slowest!
Give me ambiguity or give me something else
A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math
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Word for the week - diaphanous
PRONUNCIATION: (dy-AF-uh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective:1. Transparent, light, or delicate.2. Vague or hazy.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin diaphanus (transparent), from Greek diaphanes, from diaphainein (to show through), from dia- (across) + phainein (to show). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bha- (to shine) that is also the source of beacon, banner, phantom, photo, phosphorus, phenomenon, fantasy, and epiphany.
USAGE:
"In its main sale of the week, the house will offer five watercolors by Turner spanning his career, including the late picture 'The Brunig Pass from Meiringen, Switzerland', a whirlwind of diaphanous color and light."